https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2006-09-016-3
MAMI 2005
The Mainz Microtron MAMI --Past and future
Institut für Kernphysik, Universität Mainz, J.-J.-Becher Weg 45, D-55128, Mainz, Germany
* e-mail: janko@kph.uni-mainz.de
Received:
12
May
2006
Accepted:
12
May
2006
Published online:
15
May
2006
The Mainz Microtron MAMI is a cascade of three racetrack microtrons, delivering since 1991 a high-quality 855MeV, 100μA cw-electron beam for nuclear, hadron and radiation physics experiments. An energy upgrade of this facility to 1.5GeV by adding a Harmonic Double-Sided Microtron (HDSM) as a fourth stage is well underway and first beam is expected during the first half of 2006. A detailed description of the multiple recirculation scheme with normal conducting accelerator structures, the basis for the reliable operation of MAMI, is given and the historical development from MAMI A to MAMI B is described. The natural advancement to MAMI C by realizing a polytron of the next higher order, the HDSM, is covered in the last section and a first glimpse into the future of MAMI is given.
PACS: 29.20.-c Cyclic accelerators and storage rings – / 41.75.Lx Other advanced accelerator concepts – / 41.85.Lc Beam focusing and bending magnets, wiggler magnets, and quadrupoles –
© Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag, 2006
